Spanish Level 4 builds upon your skills gained in levels 1 to 3 in speaking and understanding Spanish. The pace of recall and conversation moves more rapidly, making way for faster learning of vocabulary and structures. With even more direction given in Spanish, you'll further your abilities to understand and reply naturally and easily to a native speaker.

Spanish Level 2 includes 15 hours of spoken language practice and one additional hour of reading instruction and is designed to be used after completing level 1. By the end of level 2, you’re speaking at a midintermediate level with near-native pronunciation, and you are comfortable meeting most social demands and limited job requirements.

The easiest and fastest way to learn Spanish. What’s included: thirty 30-minute audio lessons; 85 minutes of reading instruction in the form of a short story, allowing you to build your skills toward reading Spanish for pleasure; in total, over 17 hours of audio, all featuring native speakers; a reading booklet and user's guide. What you’ll learn: Building on skills taught in Spanish levels 1 to 4, Spanish Level 5 moves you closer to near fluency and adds a broad range of conversational skills.

French Level 5: Learn to Speak and Understand French with Pimsleur Language Programs

Pimsleur French Level 5 is a new 30-lesson course designed to be taken after Pimsleur's French Level 4. Thirty 30-minute lessons totaling 15 hours of spoken French language learning - plus 75 minutes of reading practice, reading, and hearing a short story - allow you to read French for pleasure. Builds upon skills taught in Pimsleur's French levels one through four. You'll be speaking and understanding French with near fluency and with a broad range of conversational skills.

French Level 2: Learn to Speak and Understand French with Pimsleur Language Programs

French Level 2 includes 15 hours of spoken language practice and one additional hour of reading instruction and is designed to be used after completing level one. In the first 10 lessons of level two, you begin to use the past tense. Structures become more complex, and informal speech is introduced.

French Level 4: Learn to Speak and Understand French with Pimsleur Language Programs

French Level 4 is a new 30-unit course designed to be completed after French Phase 3, Units 1-30 (which replaces the French Phase 4, Units 1-10 course). Thirty 32-minute lessons totaling 15 hours of spoken French language learning, plus 80 minutes of reading lessons designed to expand your vocabulary, give you practice reading and hearing French and bring you one step closer to reading French for pleasure.

French Level 1: Learn to Speak and Understand French with Pimsleur Language Programs

French Level 1 includes 15 hours of spoken language practice and one hour of reading instruction in thirty 30-minute lessons. In the first 10 lessons, you'll cover the basics: saying hello, asking for or giving information, scheduling a meal or a meeting, asking for or giving basic directions, and much more.

Spanish: Short Stories for Beginners: 9 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Spanish & Expand Your Vocabulary While Having Fun

Are you bored of the traditional methods people tell you to use to learn Spanish? Are you bored of all those dusty grammar books that pile up, making everything look so hard? What if we told you there's a better, more enjoyable way to learn Spanish and grow your vocabulary exponentially? Well, guess what? There is! The best way to learn Spanish is by hearing short stories.

French Level 3: Learn to Speak and Understand French with Pimsleur Language Programs

French Level 3 includes another 15 hours of spoken language practice and one additional hour of reading instruction and is designed to be used after completion of levels one and two. The beginning lessons of French Level 3 offer you the chance to expand your vocabulary and increase your fluency to an even higher level.

Italian Level 1 includes 15 hours of spoken language practice and one hour of reading instruction in thirty 30-minute lessons. In the first 10 lessons, you'll cover the basics: saying hello, asking for or giving information, scheduling a meal or a meeting, asking for or giving basic directions, and much more.

Italian Level 3 includes another 15 hours of spoken language practice and one additional hour of reading instruction and is designed to be used after completion of levels 1 and 2. The beginning lessons of level 3 offer you the chance to expand your vocabulary and increase your fluency to an even higher level. You'll gain experience participating in many informal and some formal discussions on practical, social, and semiprofessional topics.

Spanish Short Stories for Beginners: Improve Your Reading and Listening Skills in Spanish

Learn Spanish and improve your Spanish listening skills with these short stories. Gain a greater vocabulary that you can use immediately, every day. You will add 1500+ Spanish words and expressions to your repertoire through the encounter of descriptive sentences and casual conversations woven throughout the stories.

Master the Spanish verbs amar, temer, partir, ser, estar, dormir, ir, pedir, poder, haber, tener, jugar - with no memorization! Using repetition exercises designed to build your reflexes, the drills will help you develop an instinct to select the correct verb form naturally, with no more hesitations. Pronounce Spanish verbs the right way: The drills are narrated by a Spanish speaker and guaranteed to help you learn and practice correct pronunciation - as it is spoken today.

German Level 1: Learn to Speak and Understand German with Pimsleur Language Programs

German Level 1 includes 15 hours of spoken language practice and one hour of reading instruction in thirty 30-minute lessons. In the first 10 lessons, you'll cover the basics: saying hello, asking for or giving information, scheduling a meal or a meeting, asking for or giving basic directions, and much more.

Japanese Phase 3, Units 1-30: Learn to Speak and Understand Japanese with Pimsleur Language Programs

Phase 3 includes another 15 hours of spoken language practice and one additional hour of Culture Notes, and is designed is designed to be used after completion of Phases 1 and 2. The beginning of Phase 3 offers you the chance to further expand your vocabulary and increase your fluency to an even higher level.

A new 30-unit course designed to be completed after Italian Level 3 (replaces the Italian Phase 4, Units 1-10 course). Thirty 30-minute lessons totaling 15 hours of spoken Italian language learning, plus one hour of reading lessons designed to expand your vocabulary, expose you to a variety of cultural events, and give you practice reading and hearing Italian.

Spanish Short Stories for Beginners: 8 Unconventional Short Stories to Grow Your Vocabulary and Learn Spanish the Fun Way!

Spanish Short Stories for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level. The eight captivating stories are designed to give you a sense of fun while listening, so you can enjoy Spanish again!

Learn Spanish with Stories for Beginners: 10 Easy Short Stories with English Glossaries

This book makes use of simple yet entertaining stories to help you learn Spanish. By covering a diverse range of grammar structures and vocabulary, and supplementing it with audio, you can improve your reading and writing skills, and even practice your listening and pronunciation.

Chinese (Mandarin) Phase 4, Units 1-30 is a new 30-unit course designed to be completed after Mandarin phase 3. Thirty 30-minute lessons, totaling 15 hours of spoken Mandarin language learning, plus one hour of culture notes, are included. These notes are designed to provide you with a deeper understanding of Chinese culture as well as to expand upon topics discussed in the course. Phase 4 builds upon skills taught in Pimsleur's Mandarin phases 1-3.

Did you know that Mandarin is the world's most widely spoken language, with over one billion native speakers? Once you get the basics down, you'll be surprised how quickly you're able to begin speaking it. And knowing even a little bit of the language will make travel to China far easier and much more fun. Whether your goal is to travel, communicate with friends or colleagues, reconnect with family, or just understand more of what's going on around you, learning to speak Mandarin will expand your horizons and immeasurably enrich your life.

Publisher's Summary

The Pimsleur® Method is scientifically proven to be your fastest route to near-native fluency. Spanish Level 3 includes another 15 hours of spoken language practice and one additional hour of reading instruction and is designed to be used after completion of levels 1 and 2.

The beginning lessons of level 3 offer you the chance to expand your vocabulary and increase your fluency to an even higher level. You'll gain experience participating in many informal and some formal discussions on practical, social, and semiprofessional topics. You'll skillfully form longer, more complex sentences, and, most importantly, you'll find yourself being understood, even by native speakers unused to dealing with foreigners. You'll be able to join in conversations effortlessly, confident of being understood.

In the next 10 lessons of level 3, your skills will show ever-increasing mastery of the language. Speaking with grace and complete naturalness, you'll enjoy fluid conversations on many new subjects. Delving deeper into cultural norms and situations, you'll find yourself responding effortlessly and able to choose from a wide accumulation of vocabulary and structures.

In the final 10 lessons of level 3, you’re nearing fluency, with agile responses and a natural-sounding, near-native accent. You're able to utilize the language in subtle ways and speak using past, present, and future tenses. Self-confidence soars as you experience the language and culture no longer as a foreigner but with a deepening insight into an expanding new world.

Reading lessons are included at the end of lesson 30. These 20 lessons (approximately one hour) are designed to give you practice reading Spanish and to provide vocabulary. Before you know it, you'll be reading Spanish with the ease and flexibility of a native speaker. A reading booklet to be used with the audio lessons is also included in PDF format.

What the Critics Say

"Pimsleur programs provide plenty of positive reinforcement that will keep learners on track, and we found that Pimsleur gave us more proficiency and confidence in speaking the new language than any of the other language programs we reviewed." (AudioFile magazine)

Pimsleur Digital language learning is the best semantic instructional tool in the marketplace, bar none. That is not to degrade Rosetta Stone, also a fine learning product, its just that I find Pimsleur provides an even better inculcation of the language. The program contains thirty minute lessons or conversations in which one must partake.

The sessions start with a short conversation in the subject or to-be-learned-language which one must listen to; are relative easy to hear and usually understandable, although in the subject language. Imbedded in that conversation are elements of past and the upcoming lesson. Then one goes through sentences in your native language and are asked to – based on past learning sessions – speak the subject language. After you have had your opportunity the program speaks the sentence you verbalized or should have spoken. Often, the program will give you new words or idioms in advance but for the most part one is expected to learn the words from their conversational context. It works! One’s mind begins thinking in the subject language. Each lesson is repetitive but not annoyingly, rather in a supportive fashion. Each successive lesson builds on prior lessons and are almost always referring back to much earlier lesson content.

It is not only instructive but fun. Of course, just abstract learning in not enough. One must find himself/herself in conversational context with the language in everyday life. Short of that opportunity the product is exceptionally good.

I credit Pimsleur for being able to test out of a Spanish class even though I had not worked with Pimsleur.for years. they introduce present, past, and perfect tenses by using model words in conversation. You are tested continually but so that you are very often right .. positive reinforcement very positive very nice. Every day I take my mp3 player for a walk.

If it was paced more like previous lessons and more attention placed on pronunciation and new concepts before racing to the next.

Would you ever listen to anything by Pimsleur again?

I will probably continue to struggle with the next twenty lessons in the level I have already purchased - The first two levels were paced NOTHING like Level Three. And pronunciation guides were better and more repetitive.

Would you be willing to try another one of Pimsleur’s performances?

Is this not exactly like the question I was just asked - I'm starting to get really irritated.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Anger

Any additional comments?

There is a concept called positive reinforcement - that is enhanced when I give a response that is exactly right - the differences in the levels of positive reinforcement I get from Lesson Nine to Lesson Ten are quantum in their differences - from being at least somewhat pleased with my progress I am presented with a lesson that introduces me to vocabulary and tenses with only the briefest of pronunciation help and this is followed by about 30 calls in a row for a correct response that totally eludes me - that I cannot get right - and reinforces how much I do not know about this new language and how exceedingly difficult it will be to learn - if that is the Pimsleur Method then they succeeded quite well - if the Method is meant to bolster confidence then they fail miserably in Level Three. Lesson 10 is like a quantum leap from lesson 9 in complexity after having become accustomed to the pace of the other 70 lessons which preceded it. At the end of Level Three - Lesson Ten I felt like I had just gone 15 rounds with Mike Tyson whipping my non Spanish speaking ass every time I tried to give a response..